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The Romanisation of Italy in the 2nd c. B. C. - Henrik Mouritsen, ITALIAN UNIFICATION. A STUDY IN ANCIENT & MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 70; London 1998). Pp. viii + 203. ISBN 0 900587 81 4. £35.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Guy Bradley*
Affiliation:
School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University

Abstract

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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2002

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References

1 E.g., “What we find exemplified in Mommsen's ‘Italian question’ is teleology elevated to hermeneutic method” (32).

2 See, for instance, Keaveney, A., Rome and the unification of Italy (London 1987) chapt. 3.1Google Scholar; Pobjoy, M., “The first Italia,” in Herring, E. and Lomas, K. (edd.), The emergence of state identities in Italy in the first millennium BC (London 2000) 187211 Google Scholar.

3 E.g., Freeman, P., “Mommsen to Haverfield: the origins of studies of Romanization in late 19th-c. Britain,” in Mattingly, D. J. (ed.), Dialogues in Roman imperialism (JRA Suppl. 23, 1997) 2750 Google Scholar.

4 Rocca, G., Iscrizioni umbre minori (Florence 1996)Google Scholar.

5 See Terrenato, N., “The Romanization of Italy: global acculturation or cultural bricolage?,” in Forcey, C. et al. (edd.), TRAC 97 (Oxford 1998) 2027 Google Scholar, and the studies in Keay, S. and Terrenato, N. (edd.), Italy and the West. Comparative issues in Romanization (Oxford 2000)Google Scholar.

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7 R. Witcher, “Globalisation and Roman imperialism. Perspectives on identities in Roman Italy,” in Herring and Lomas (supra n.2) 213-25.

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9 141; cf. Pobjoy (supra n.2) 198-205.

10 P. Brunt, “Italian aims at the time of the Social War,” in id., The fall of the Roman Republic and related essays (Oxford 1988) 128.

11 Brunt (supra n.10) 108-9; Bradley, G., Ancient Umbria (Oxford 2000) 220–21Google Scholar.

12 An assumption I have questioned in “States, cities and tribes in central Italy,” in Herring and Lomas (supra n.2) 109-29.

13 On this general phenomenon see Giardina, A., “L'identità incompiuta dell'Italia romana,” in L'Italie d'Auguste à Dioclétian (CollEFR 198, 1994) 189 Google Scholar, a reference I owe to H. Mouritsen.